Re: Using Javascript to branch from one asp page to another and return

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From: Mark Schupp (mschupp_at_ielearning.com)
Date: 06/07/04 

Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 10:43:23 -0700

Once the first form is submitted you can no longer get any input from the
user on that page. If you do not want to include your question in the
client-side validation of the first form then you will have to generate and
intermediate page to ask your question after updating the database.

form1 submits to form1processor
form1processor generates html that asks your questions and either
    on "yes" submits data to form3
    on "no" opens form2

form3 goes to form2 as the final result of being submitted 

-- 
Mark Schupp
Head of Development
Integrity eLearning
www.ielearning.com
"fig000" <neilnewton001@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:ea2a0f57.0406062004.142b0d77@posting.google.com...
> Hi,
>
>   I'm relatively new to Javascript so please bear with me on what
> might sound like silly questions.
>
>    This is what I want to do:
>      I'm working in classic asp (I have to for this project). I need
> to:
>          1. Click a submit button on an asp page, calling another page
> that saves the contents of that form to a database and then displays
> some information from the form. Obviously this part is simple. So
> let's call these two forms form1 and form2.
>
>          2. Here's the part I don't understand. Sometime after the
> user clicks the submit button, I would like the user to see a
> confirmation message asking them if they want to do a certain task
> that. If the user says "yes" I want the code to branch off to a third
> asp page (form3), do an update to one specific field in the database,
> and then return to the calling code.
>
>     I've considered having this occur right when the user clicks the
> submit button (on form1; this would mean that after the execuation of
> form3 the program would return to form1.But it occurred to me that it
> would be better to have the code save the form contents to the
> database before the confirmation message comes up; this would mean
> that the program would return to form2 after executing form3. I'm not
> sure which is best
>
>     I'm not really used to "branching" using javascript. What needs to
> happen is the code needs to branch to form3 (depending on if the user
> clicks "yes" in the confirmation box) and then the program needs to
> return to the calling asp page to continue the original processing.
> Also the form fields need to be available to the calling asp page as
> "request.form" variables(after the return from form3) so that it can
> continue it's work.
>
>    The only thing I've seen that runs an asp page and then returns is
> "sever.execute". This is a vbscript command for ie as far as I know
> and I'm wondering if there is something similar in javascript. I would
> suppose it would be like "window.location".
>
>    Any help would be appreciated. I am open to some other method of
> doing this than I've outlined here. I feel I've probably missed
> something.
>
> Neil
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